Observability Edot Java Instrument

Instrument a Java application with the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) Java agent for automatic tracing, metrics, and logs.

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---
name: observability-edot-java-instrument
description: >
  Instrument a Java application with the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT)
  Java agent for automatic tracing, metrics, and logs. Use when adding observability
  to a Java service that has no existing APM agent.
metadata:
  author: elastic
  version: 0.1.1
---

# EDOT Java Instrumentation

Read the setup guide before making changes:

- [EDOT Java setup](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/opentelemetry/edot-sdks/java/setup)
- [OpenTelemetry Java agent](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/zero-code/java/agent/)
- [EDOT Java configuration](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/opentelemetry/edot-sdks/java/configuration)

## Guidelines

1. Use `elastic-otel-javaagent.jar` (download from
   [Maven Central](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/co.elastic.otel/elastic-otel-javaagent/latest), not a Maven/Gradle
   compile dependency)
1. Attach via `-javaagent:/path/to/elastic-otel-javaagent.jar` or